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Pretty bad idea, the battleships would most likely get killed before you non-triage carriers can lock onto them. And with 200k tank and 10k shield rep your BS wont be able to put out any DPS, sites will take FOREVER. Might as well move into a Red Giant and clear sleeper sites with multiple smart bombing carriers. Or you can log onto sisi and try out your idea.

just warp 1 carrier at a time, assign drones from the 2nd one if you are worried about losing DPS.

whether they can alpha your BS's depends on their fit.

If you want to get as efficient as possible you can refit to tank off the carrier when you get primaried and you can tank 2 escalation waves no problem if you fit for them

Escalated sleeper BS's orbit at about 43km so make sure your optimal is about that

Sorry bro, this had me laughing out loud, I actually pictured a carrier warping in first and mentally preparing itself to catch a BS before its alphaed by sleepers. Yeah, you can get a better scan res but look at all the crap you have to do JUST because you are refusing the do the sites the easy way. Like I said, try it on Sisi and if that fails try the whole Red Giant smart bomb trick.

Ofc it's not the easy way, but is there any easy way to do C5s with 5 characters? (No, I'm not soloing)
Thought about it some and tried some fittings, but I think a pulsar, 2 carriers and 3 battleships is the best way to do it if that's what you got. It should work, since I could get the initial aggro on a carrier and the sig bloom along with a decent scan res makes it able to lock the battleships in about 7 seconds (according to EFT). The battleships would be able to take 10k DPS for about 15 seconds before the shield is out (the missiles are half of the DPS aswell, which won't be there directly). And that is the worst case scenario, with ALL sleepers directly applying full DPS as soon as the BS lands on grid. It might sound a crazy and testing it out on sisi is a good suggestion, but it surely sounds like an exciting goal. (Currently bored in a C4). As for taking forever:
Each guardian have 55k hp (with ~75% resists) and 27k hull, which adds up to 55*4 + 27 = 247k EHP. (Taken from http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/npc_ships.php?supergroup=23&return_to=)
With 5k DPS, that is about 50 sec per guardian. 20 guardians should survive for about 17min (theoretically, but shouldn't be more then 30min). Not forever

Someone talking from experience, golden :)
If it's too much for the BSs to handle at the start, it could possibly work with 1 Carrier and 3 BSs to get the worst DPS of the field before the 2nd comes along. Another option is to have both carriers, alone at the start. With 3.2m shield EHP, they should be able just deal 2k DPS for as long as it takes for the BSs to safely enter the fray.

^^ Assuming your fits are sound and your using siege links locking and keeping a battleship alive in a C5 pulsar against 2 waves will be perfectly doable aslong as your carrier pilots are on the ball.

Also if your carriers are closer to the guardians initially than your battleships the sleepers will usually primary the carriers (tho it doesn't work 100% of the time).




Aslong as your pilots have reasonable skills and someone can do a half reasonable level of siege links then tank/cap will be the least of your issues - tho I'd probably suggest doing one escalation at a time initially to get a feel for it - 14 guardians is something like -508 cap/s with relatively low cap alpha - throw in some genolution cores and some cap implants and your laughing. I'd still strongly suggest triage tho, the capabilities of a triage chimera in a pulsar is quite frankly ludicrous - take this one for example http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17868579 took that fleet over 45 minutes to kill it (or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxGeMeDIuds which was a C6 pulsar).

You probably won't get most battleships upto 1m EHP the rattlesnake has resist bonuses and tons of base shield HP - was more illustration that you can get battleship tanks upto pretty insane levels in a pulsar.

If you didn't see this tutorial, here is my recommendation.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/07/01/eve-evolved-five-awesome-carrier-tactics/

Not quite following you there but don't stick ganglinks on the carriers unless your completely out of options, either boost from POS if someones got a spare alt in a BC/CS/T3 or stick em in a command ship or something on grid (not really reccomended).

Cool guide, but the only thing related to cap escalations was that section, which didn't say much and that video, which was more cool than educational.

a.) pulsar doesnt give resist bonus
b.) no point at all warping in 2 carriers at one
c.) you WILL need to triage if using BSs, even with just 1 carrier wave

PS: dont use tengus, theyre ****.